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Bureau of Health Informatics
- Convene epidemiologists and program leaders to strategize agency-wide analytic priorities and approaches
- Regularly convene epidemiologists and data analysts for robust skill building activities
- Support adoption of key advanced analytic methods to be used across the agency
- Provide or coordinate technical assistance for advanced analytics
- GIS/spatial analytics
- SAS & STATA
- Provide or coordinate technical assistance with SMEs for appropriate use of population data sets
- National data sources (i.e. US Census, American Community Survey, etc.)
- Louisiana data (i.e. such as Vital Records, Medicaid, LaHIDD)
- Maintain agreements for data sharing and provide consultation on permitted uses
- Collaborate with ethics & IRB
- Work with SME's to identify and develop the "datasets of truth" for analytics
- Coordinate and support the implementation of OPH electronic health records and meaningful use activities
- Work with LDH IT to assure appropriate technology resources (hardware/software) for data staff
- Work with agency and program leadership to prioritize the data that should be available to the public
- Develop strategies to "liberate" public health knowledge gained from analytics when appropriate and to making "public use" datasets available